Questioning calls to consensus in conservation: A Q study of conservation discourses on Galápagos

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-26

  Cairns, Rose ^a   Sallu, Susannah M ^a   Goodman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consensus; Democracy; Discourse analysis; Gal pagos; Q method; Social perspectives; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

CONSENSUS; DEMOCRACY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; Q METHOD; SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE; TRADE-OFFS;

COMMERCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEMOCRACY; METHODOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRADE-OFF;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

EID: 84896497501     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892913000131     Document Type: Article

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